Alfred Ehrhardt: Iceland (Island) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Inga L Ra Baldvinsdottir, Christiane Stahl, Alfred Ehrhardt
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 281197
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Bilingual
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.7 x 0.7
ISBN: 3775716459
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783775716451
ASIN: 3775716459
Publication Date: February 1, 2006
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Product Description
In 1938, Alfred Ehrhardt, then in his thirties, embarked upon a two-month film-and-photography expedition through Iceland, visiting such now well-known landscape monuments as Dettifoss and Langsjakull. His tour of the island, which he navigated in a high-wheeled Ford and on horseback, was truly ambitious and often dangerous. Following his first photo series, Das Watt (Mudflats) and Die Kurische Nehrung (Curonian Spit), it was only logical that his quest for ielementary manifestations of fundamental forcesi would lead him to this untouched iprimal landscapei shaped by glaciers and volcanoes, where he hoped to gain insights into Earthis origin. This richly illustrated publication illuminates the context in which he worked, describes other Icelandic expeditions by German photographers and researchers during the 20s and 30s, and explores the typological approach to the landscape and the abstract, avant-garde visual vocabulary that set Ehrhardt apart.
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